On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 04:43:41PM +0000, Samy Elashmawy wrote:

Hi evey one , downloaded freesco and cant seem to get it working. I want to use it with the following

ethernet card access the internal network and modem it access the external network/ISP/internet.

So how do you set up masqerading ? and how do you set up ppp and how does it handle the ever changing ISP assined ip address an each redial ? then how do you test that its working ?

Well, Sam, I hate to point out the obvious, but try the Forums listed on the Freesco page, and the Knowledge page link that is there also. Everything you need has been hashed over many times before in that forum, where you have more or less direct access to the developer and several maintainers, not to mention more than a few people sold on Freesco ;). That said, assuming you are starting from a freshly created Freesco floppy disk: 1) put the disk in the drive 2) turn on the 'puter 3) when the boot logo for Freesco comes up, follow the directions type 'setup' and hit enter. 4) It should prompt you to login as root and enter the root passwd (default is 'root'), Do this, then hit enter again. 5) Select what configuration you want. In this case, it sounds like you probably want what I am using, which is d)ialup, where Freesco acts as firewall/gateway btwn your lan and the rest of the world. 6) Answer the questions as you go. In most cases, the default is reasonable. I presume you already know what you are using/want to use for ip address, netmask, hostname, and domain name for this box Make sure you enable the web control panel on port 82! 7) One thing to beware of: Make very sure that the options for things like telnet server, web server, dhcp, etc that have options like (y/s/n) that you either pick (s)ecure(internal interface only) or (n)o for not at all. Otherwise, you will be making that service available to the Internet via your dialup link. Not generally a good idea! 8) Skip thinks like port forwarding, DHCP, print server, time server, etc. for now. You can fiddle with them later. 9) You can select what you want for dial-on-demand settings, by either choosing (0) for filter.cfg (see diald docs for info), or entering number of seconds you want an idle link to stay up. *Note* this is my only gripe w/ 0.26 right now... Using (0) it doesn't seem to autodial for me. Probably a minor tweak, or just have to use a default timeout like 600 seconds. YMMV. 10) Enter the info for your isp (connection name, user name, password, pap/chap/script, and you should be about done. When finished, reboot. Let it get completely done. If you are really worried about it, log in from the console as root (remember the passwd?) and type 'ifconfig'. This will give you the status of all the network interfaces. Try pinging your internal hosts, using IP addresses. This should work w/o any fiddling. Then type 'control up' as root. You should hear your modem come on, and dial. After a little bit, try ifconfig again to see if ppp0 is up. That should be about it! Change your root passwd immediately! 11) Now use a web browser on your internal net (use Netscape or IE. kfm and lynx won't cut it) Point it at the address of the gateway box like this 'http://10.0.0.1:82' for a gateway host at ip address 10.0.0.1. You should see a black screen w/ a login link in the center. Click it, and login as admin, w/ passwd 'admin'. 12) You can now control your Freesco box from this panel. If you are like me and have kids/significant other who are not tech's, you can add a non-admin web-user w/ no passwd, which can just bring the link up and down, or block it (incase of important incoming phone calls, etc.) 13) Now for the hard(er) part. Using telnet, or a console attached to the gateway, log in as root, cd to /mnt/router/etc/. This is Where all the config files are saved on the floppy. The other ones under /etc/ itself are in the ramdisk. Any changes to /etc will be lost on reboot. So make your changes here. The default editor is invoked like so: 'edit named.hst' which is where you want to put entries for your local hosts on your lan, so as to avoid spurious dial-outs. Also edit the appropriate namedxxx.rev file, which is the reverse mapping file. The examples are pretty good; just add similar ones for your lan. And reboot. You should be set now. For further goodies, look on the web pages I mentioned above. Enjoy, Monte

hardware P100 w two 1/2 gig drives , freesco on bootable floppy (once it works Ill think about moving it to the hd. nevell ne1000/2000 compatable card using io=0x300 and irq 11 external modem on com port one.

freesco see them both.

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